Shirley Leong

After driving husband Martin to infidelity and catching him with another, mentally unstable author Jade returns to her New Zealand home. The plan is to write a book based on the town's history, helped by the local school teacher and her college thesis protégée, and visit her father Christopher. As her editor later explains, her suspicions concerning ever more locals stem from a pathological mental condition. However, more then just paranoia comes with the horse riding incident which killed her ma, an obsessive guilt matter for her and Christopher.

Believing that bad karma is keeping him from realizing his dream, hip clothing designer Amer Atrash (Philippe Caland) attempts to orchestrate salvation -- with unexpected results -- in this indie drama. Pushed to the edge of financial disaster and facing marital woes, Atrash resolves to right a wrong he committed years earlier when his car accidentally struck Philip Blackman (Forest Whitaker), leaving him paralyzed.

クリスマス・イヴの夜。ハリントン一家は、毎年恒例のクリスマス・パーティに出席するため、おばあちゃんの家へと向かっていた。２０年以上も同じ道を通ってきたフランクだったが、この日彼は、なんとも魅惑的な近道を発見し、ひとけのないその道に車を進めた。ところが、どうしたことか行けども行けども目的地にたどり着かず、道はどんどん暗く薄気味悪くなっていった。やがて一家は、赤ん坊を抱え道端にたたずむ白いドレスの女と遭遇する。それを境に、一家の不吉な予感はいよいよ現実のものとなっていく。